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COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK"WISHED TO HANDLE THE IMMEDIATE ` PROBLEM BUT ALSO FIND A WAY TO GO FROM THERE TO A LONG RANGE SYSTEM. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER WISHED TO KNOW IF ANYTHING WE DO WILL BE ON MR. SALTERS LAND. ATTORNEY COLLINS FELT THE DIRECTIONS TODAY SHOULD BE CENTERED ON THE BOARDS CAPACITY AS A RECEIVER, AND THIS CAPACITY IS TO ANALYZE THE ASSETS THAT ARE THERE AND MARSHALL THE ASSETS TO HELP SOLVE THE PEOPLE S PROBLEMS. ADMINISTRATOR NELSON ASKED IF THE NEXT DECISION IS WHETHER OR NOT THE COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN AS THE RECEIVER? ATTORNEY COLLINS EXPLAINED THAT BASICALLY A RECEIVER IS AN IMPARTIAL PARTY APPOINTED BY THE COURT, AND THE FACT THAT TREASURE COAST UTILITIES HAS CHOSEN TO FILE SUIT AGAINST THE COUNTY PUTS THE COUNTY IN A DIFFERENT POSITION THAN WE WERE BEFORE. HE DID NOT SEE THAT WE NOW HAVE ANY ALTERNATIVE BUT TO TELL THE COURT THAT WE WILL DECLINE THE RECEIVERSHIP; WE CAN CONTINUE TO TRY TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE, BUT WE ARE NO LONGER IMPARTIAL. COMMISSIONER BIRD INQUIRED IF WE HAVE OR HAVE NOT ACTUALLY BEEN APPOINTED RECEIVER AT THIS TIMER ATTORNEY COLLINS STATED THAT THE COURT APPOINTED US AS RECEIVER, BUT WE ASKED FOR 20 DAYS TO DETERMINE HOW WE WOULD CONTINUE .TO ACT. THE COURT DID MAKE THE TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT. COMMISSIONER BIRD ASKED IF WE ARE NOT PREMATURE IN STUDYING THE ALTERNATIVES IF WE NOW ARE GOING TO DECLINE THE RECEIVERSHIP. ATTORNEY COLLINS NOTED THAT THE COURT IN ITS ORDER ASKED THE COUNTY -TO COME BACK WITH A SUGGESTION OF -ALTERNATIVES AND -TO -DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT THE COUNTY- WOULD CONTINUE TO SERVE. WE HAVE -UNTIL MAY IgTH -TO FILE -THE REPORT AND TELL THE- COURT- WHAT THE COUNTY�S INTENTIONS ARE. _ COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK ASKED IF THE COURT -CAN MAKE MR SALTER COMPLY WITH ONE OF THESE ALTERNATIVES, AND ATTORNEY COLLINS POINTED OUT THAT THE COURT HAS EFFECTIVELY ORDERED -HIM BEFORE TO MAKE - - 17 4 -- - MAY 1:5 1981 P�c� 446